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..for structured data, such as relational tables and spreadsheets, as well as knowledge graphs. The workshop held on February 27th, 2025, at the CWI, Amsterdam Science Park, received positive responses with a total of 70 participants attending from different parts of Europe.

The nomination process emphasizes fairness, diversity, and rigorous evaluation, ensuring that those selected are leaders in their field and contribute to the ELLIS Society’s vision.

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🎯 Your mission:
With this hackathon, we want to introduce you to ENFs and challenge you to try figure out solutions for new encoding schemes resulting in meaningful positional features. We will work in teams on the hackathon and have a benchmark to evaluate.

..schemes based on ENFs. ENFs try to overcome texture bias in CNNs and ViTs by grounding representations in geometry. Currently, geometry-grounded methods still struggle to create meaningful positional features and, at the same time, be as expressive as Sota models such as CNNs.

🔹 David Knigge and David Wessels (UvA) will introduce cutting-edge research on ENFs and break down the hackathon details

🍲 We fuel up with a free lunch before diving into the challenge!

💡 The Hackathon Challenge: the hackathon focuses on developing new inference or encoding..

🌆 Programs of the day
🔹 Dr. @erikjbekkers Bekkers (@UvA_Amsterdam) will dive into geometry-grounded representations & his vision for the future of representation learning

🔹Christian Shewmake (CEO of New Theory) will explore advances in foundation models &what’s still missing

✨ The four-day immersive program features in-depth lectures by Europe's leading experts in foundation models, and offers opportunities to connect with academic and industry researchers worldwide 🌍

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1600 Arianna Bisazza (Groningen Univ.)'Studying Language Evolution and Acquisition with Modern Neural Networks'

1700: Goran Glavaš (Würzburg Univ.) 'How Many Words is A Picture Really Worth? On Training and Evaluating Multilingual Vision-Language Models'

🔆 The ELLIS Winter School on Foundation Models is sponsored by #ELLISunitAmsterdam and ELIAS - Lighthouse of AI for Sustainability Project, organized by Prof. Dr. @cgmsnoek.bsky.social and Prof. @yukimasano.bsky.social

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✨ The confirmed lineup of speakers for the FoMo so far are:
🔹 Rita Cucchiara, UNIMORE
🔹 Amir Zamir, EPFL
🔹 Wolfram Burgard, University of Technology Nuremberg
🔹 Tim Rocktäschel, GoogleDeepMind
🔹 Jenia Jitsev, LAION
🔹 Fahad Khan, MBZUAI & Linköping University